Why, because I haven't been advocating it or insisting they'll definitely have been in love in GT?

No, because from what I'm getting from you, you are the cause that idea came into existence, correct? If so, I always think its cool to have someone present on the forums who developed an idea and had it implemented on such a scale.

Why, because I haven't been advocating it or insisting they'll definitely have been in love in GT?

No, because from what I'm getting from you, you are the cause that idea came into existence, correct? If so, I always think its cool to have someone present on the forums who developed an idea and had it implemented on such a scale.

Yes, I started it. I still can't decide whether I'm proud of that or not lol.

I can't lie and say I'm not a little proud of how far my ship managed to go...even if most people are still wretching at the idea. I'm cool with that though.

The worst part is sitting back with all these stupid ideas bubbling up inside. I'm so tempted to make a thread just for theories on this chapter...I know we have the page threads but I feel like we get off topic a lot (like now???)

We have the Predictions thread for that, which would be better for this sort of talk since it is designed for the discussing of a large range of theories and predictions on the comic.

Technically we aren't off topic in here discussing the relation as far as GT is concerned. As long as it is GT related, it can fly. The Grey line comes at the idea of if this is GT related or not. Some would and have argued with me that it is and others that it isn't.

I'm just glad there are people around willing to discuss this comic with me. Most of my friends wouldn't, or won't read it. I'm sure I'll be here for a long time if the rate this comic updates is anything to go by, not that that's a bad thing.

I'm just glad there are people around willing to discuss this comic with me. Most of my friends wouldn't, or won't read it. I'm sure I'll be here for a long time if the rate this comic updates is anything to go by, not that that's a bad thing.

Compared to me, you're lucky I can barely get anyone to watch doctor who in my area. And even there, there's no such kind of doctor who hater I ever heard of. Some people just don't like anime or manga.

Havoc751 wrote:I second that. Did you? If so, I am so jealous of your influential capabilities.

Spam the same thing on many different sites for like 7 years and I'm sure you'll find at least one person who likes what you're doing

Havoc751 wrote:By the way askura, about what time did Bleed discover your AkuXBlossom thing? Like was it the end of last year, or the beginning of last, or earlier like 2011?

I commissioned him for it a couple times and I think it surprised him a lot, about Feb 2010 was the first one?? I am actually not the one who ultimately inspired him to do this thing in Grim Tales though, someone else's comic did. But he was exposed to it before then...

I try to be as open-minded as possible, I feel it helps with my own creativity. Ever since I heard about the Blossom x Aku pairing (about a week ago :p), I could already imagine how it could came to be. Though I'm to lazy to search up the fanfic for it, I'd like to eventually find out how it went in comparison to how I imagined it going. Original is probably better though, since it was influential enough to spread as it did. Not to mention it spawned Chi here.

Also, even if I'm not a 12 year old kid, I assure you it's hard to get weirder than my thought process. <3

I was watching Samurai Jack with some friends of mine a few days ago, and I recalled a conversation we had about Aku's love of capitalism. He always wants monuments to him and his greatness, his face everywhere, his name on every tongue. Why? Is it just vanity?

One of my friends had a really interesting theory to it. In some cultures it is believed to bring misfortune to speak a demons name or to create a likeness of it. Why? Because this seemingly innocent act empowers the demon, strengthening it to act further on the mortal plane. Maybe Aku was modeled after this kind of thought. The more presence he has, the more power he has. That is actually a really clever way to explain why Aku appears so vain, the monuments and endorsements actually serve to grant him more power.

It's like a demonic food source, so it would make sense that he would spoil his daughter with it as well. besides, she fills that swimsuit way better then Aku would.

Lumino wrote:I was watching Samurai Jack with some friends of mine a few days ago, and I recalled a conversation we had about Aku's love of capitalism. He always wants monuments to him and his greatness, his face everywhere, his name on every tongue. Why? Is it just vanity?

One of my friends had a really interesting theory to it. In some cultures it is believed to bring misfortune to speak a demons name or to create a likeness of it. Why? Because this seemingly innocent act empowers the demon, strengthening it to act further on the mortal plane. Maybe Aku was modeled after this kind of thought. The more presence he has, the more power he has. That is actually a really clever way to explain why Aku appears so vain, the monuments and endorsements actually serve to grant him more power.

It's like a demonic food source, so it would make sense that he would spoil his daughter with it as well. besides, she fills that swimsuit way better then Aku would.

I'd say it's that and his vanity and his need to "remind all who is the master of this world" (Episode 2).

It's not just various cultures but in popular media, a god or other powerful being may draw their power from the worship of humans. Considering how much research went into the series on top of how much Genndy and crew love sci-fi comic book action stuff, I'm sure all of this was intentional.

You know I'd pictured some far out weird idea as to explain her identity. Maybe it's Aku who finally figured he was evil enough after he realized the dead horse wasn't coughing up more pleas for help no matter how hard he beat it. Then he decides "Hey I'm a shapeshifter what the heck." Cause everyone wants to be pretty once in a while. Which begins his pretty campaign of being "pretty evil". See what I did there? Nah? Alright then! Anyway, I doubt that Mimi and Chi are 'involved' in a romantic extent. It could just be that Chi loves her a lot due to the whole being in an exclusive club. Daughters of Evil Daddies. Marceline, Mimi, Chi, and a lot of other would be hero love interests. Heck they could have monthly meetings like a support group.

Bah, anyway when you only have one person that you can even vaguely relate to, let alone one who's silent which means you carry the weight of the dialogue which also means you more or less choose the topics.. Well it's nice to have someone who can just listen.

Rane wrote: It could just be that Chi loves her a lot due to the whole being in an exclusive club. Daughters of Evil Daddies. Marceline, Mimi, Chi, and a lot of other would be hero love interests. Heck they could have monthly meetings like a support group.

Marceline's iffy. It's a little hard to tell were this part of the story occurs, vis a vis Marcie's life. If it is occuring during the Adventure Time time period, Marcie's probably too old to have much interest in palling around with Mimi and Chi, she'd probably think it was wasting her time to associate with "babies". And it this all is happening around the time Marcie is around the age of the other two, she's probably is still on the surface wandering around with Simon with her father unable to locate her (it's still a little unclear to me if Hunson purposely abandoned Marcie on the surface, because he is evil, or he simply couldn't find her). The only way I could see marcie being a member of such a group was if she had founded it.

"For I have heard the Song of War, and to me, it sounds just like "Please, Mister Custer.""

Cogito Ergot Sum, "I think there is something wrong with this rye bread." (Aplogies to Seafrol.)

Tenshi Nova wrote:I try to be as open-minded as possible, I feel it helps with my own creativity. Ever since I heard about the Blossom x Aku pairing (about a week ago :p), I could already imagine how it could came to be. Though I'm to lazy to search up the fanfic for it, I'd like to eventually find out how it went in comparison to how I imagined it going. Original is probably better though, since it was influential enough to spread as it did. Not to mention it spawned Chi here.

Also, even if I'm not a 12 year old kid, I assure you it's hard to get weirder than my thought process. <3

You'd be surprised just how much fanfic for the pairing you can find. But, honestly, the nice thing about the pairing is that there are literally an infinite number of ways it could possibly go.

You could almost say there are endless possibilities.

On topic, though, as Askura said, Chi used a really specific/meaningful form of "I love you" when she was texting Mimi. Try to spin it however you'd like, but I think it's pretty clear home-girl has a thing for Mimi. And let's not even get into that Mimi is wearing one of the swimsuits Chi is modeling in the Aku Cola billboard (source: the deleted facebook photo).

Definitely looking forward to seeing Aku in, hopefully, the next page. Given his tendency for exposition, we might get a chance to see what actually went down in the rather muddled past, regarding Blossom, Him, and Aku, of course.

As for Aku X Blossom as a pairing, it would really have to be a situational thing. Since at the two coming together anywhere normal, I can see a kind of tragic-y and very respectful friendship going on, but Blossom would always stay with her sisters and Aku stay being a evolutioner of all things evilly.

Imagining a cute goodbye of Blossom kissing his nose for that friendship. (Aku being huge giant and Blossom just being her cute little thing self.)

Personally while I do think the whole BlossomxAku thing is kind of funny I never took it seriously. That may be a good thing though.

Aku is an evil demon whose murdered, used slave labor, used fear to get his way and has always had a generally crappy attitude. Maybe I just hold superheroes in a high regard, but in a manner that asks me to take it seriously I can't see them so much as getting along. And yes I have read Askura's AkuxBlossom manifesto. But I still can't see anything between them ending in anything other than a fist fight.

Part of what I did think was funny about how Askura shipped them was that she seemed to know it was silly and she played it up for humor because this is the internet and wired shit happens.I may be a little biased because of something I may or may not be working on, but I don't see it happening.

Oh, sure the whole "Join me and we can rule side by side" thing is fun, but... when the hero actually does it, it just feels wrong. Then again everyone in Grim Tales seems to have their "jerk" side amped up to eleven regardless to how they acted in the shows they came from. (I'm only basing that off of the pages I've looked at because I haven't read that much of Grim Tales)

If you disagree then you disagree, no big deal. But I don't care how stressed out Blossom would be from being a superhero I don't see her doing that.

It would be like seeing Superman actually use an oversized gun to kill people...

Which is why Superman at Earth's End sucks. Not the only reason, but its a pretty big reason. I once showed that to a friend of mine and he looked like he was going to punch me in the face and I was all like, "Hey, don't shoot the messenger man."

Anyways when it comes to Grim Tales, I'm an outsider looking in. I've never been that interested in it so really I guess it doesn't matter what I bring to the table because I'm not a fan. So, whatever go about enjoying your fan comic. It obvious that Grim Tales doesn't want to be taken too seriously... I think.

Edit: I would also like to say that while I don't see Blossom actually falling for our favorite flaming eyebrow demon. I can totally see why a power hungry being like Aku would probably have interest in Blossom. This isn't a paring that I'm technically against. In fact I find it interesting in its own way I just think it ends with them being enemies mainly because Blossom is a superhero and as I stated before I hold superheroes in a high standard and as we all know its kind of a pain in the ass to keep your own personal head cannon out of the situation regardless of how objective you want to be. At some point it because really easy to mistake head cannon for actual cannon and head cannon is a lot more personal and has regrettably lead to many internet fights. I've actually done Aku/Blossom related things for Askura in the past (most of which are Devil Blossom related) and I'm currently working on something for it now (all be it, it does end up having them as enemies) that's taking sometime to finish.So I admit I have kind of a weird..er view on this pairing than most... At least I think I do, thanks to the internet I'm having a harder and harder time telling what's weird and what's normal apart.

I will say that part of the reason why I became interested in Askura's work is because of her since of humor when it comes to this paring as well as other things.

As for Aku X Blossom as a pairing, it would really have to be a situational thing. Since at the two coming together anywhere normal, I can see a kind of tragic-y and very respectful friendship going on, but Blossom would always stay with her sisters and Aku stay being a evolutioner of all things evilly.

Imagining a cute goodbye of Blossom kissing his nose for that friendship. (Aku being huge giant and Blossom just being her cute little thing self.)

AHHHH! I'M GONNA DO THAT! I'M SO GONNA DO THAT! GOTTA GO MAKE AN ART THREAD!

*Zips away into too-much-freetime-oblivion*

aaahhh that's my favorite version of them! They could totally be best friends. (Also I've totally drawn what you just suggested) DUNNO WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT IN THE END OF YOUR POST THOUGH I guess I'll just have to wait and see??

Mad Mutt wrote:Part of what I did think was funny about how Askura shipped them was that she seemed to know it was silly and she played it up for humor because this is the internet and wired shit happens.

Well, yeah. It's pretty hard to take them seriously...they're both gigantic DORKS

I can't believe you've managed to watch me at DA this long without turning away in disgust at the pairing though XD

Like I said Askura, your since of humor is what kept making me come back and work on that stuff related to your pairing including what I'm doing now.Also, I've seen waaay weirder stuff on the internet. Like really weird stuff.

Blood Lord wrote:I hope not. There needs to be an alternative story telling device besides flashbacks.

I would rather learn more of Chi and Aku, then her relationship with Mimi.

Well we all know how Bleed is when it comes to flash backs.I'm kind of hoping he'll alternate stories. Like do a sub-chapter/short story thing, based around answering question about the heroes, and what happened in Megaville, or even what's happening in Megaville in the present time period. But than again, with updates only every 1 or 2 weeks, there could be a bit of a problem with more than one thing going on.

I too would like to see what kind of father/daughter relationship these two have. But I would like to know what kind of relationship Aku and Blossom had. Hell, I'd be interested to see what Chi thinks of her mother.

askura wrote:DUNNO WHAT YOU'RE GETTING AT IN THE END OF YOUR POST THOUGH I guess I'll just have to wait and see??

Once I finish the first sketch (but I've been trying to get 100% on Bully Scholarship Edition all week) I'm going to put up an art thread for updates on the project. It's third place on priorities list (below my current project and Bully) but it's gonna be AWESOME 8D

But yeah, I kinda hope they hold off explaining things for a while. I want to see what Chi's gonna do. I can live without the flashbacks. I don't want them to go too into it anyway.

They haven't completely explained Mimi yet, I don't think we need Chi's full story for a while. Maybe it'll come up later and Chi'll ramble it out when she gets upset. At least that's the most likable way of telling it I can think of.